Plate Number 142. Descending stairs and turning, dress caught

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a photograph of several sequential frames capturing a figure descending a set of stairs. The series consists of two rows of images in grayscale, each capturing a different moment in time as the figure moves down the stairs holding an object that appears to be a fan. The images include grids or lines in the background. Each image is slightly different, capturing subtle changes in movement and position as the figure descends.